Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-11
WEEDS A SECOND TIME.
rnx wrDow OF MILLIONAIRE HOPKINS
AGAIN MARRIED.
Net Him in Great harrington, the Home
OF Her Childhood, and He
Won Her Heart.

1--WE nty-SlNtn street, Now loTk Guy, Oy
the Rev. DIR. P,att yesterday morning.
IL takes Int few lines TO make this an
nouncemont, but columns could be
written of the lady who has now become
Mrs. SeSrle, and her marriage viii oc-
casion "a much surprise on the Pacific
slope as on this side of the continent.
The New York World SAYS Shortly
after she moved from California 10 this
city Mrs. Searle made tho Windsor iio-
tel her home, spending her summers at
Great Darlington, Mass, to which place
her parents had moved shortly after her
birth in this city. During the present
season she has resided at the Victoria
Hotel
SO many pleasant associations we're
connected with Great Darlington, the
years of her childhood having been
spent there. that Mrs. Searle decided to
build n palstial residence there. Among
the residents of the pretty country vii
iage nesting amid the Berkshire Hills
was A. 7. Scarlc, retired country gen
tleman. Between his country home and
this city Mr.. Searle divides his time
about equally, and he is as well known
here MS in Massachusetts. Among his
friends and scquaintanccs he is acted
for his culture and refine nent and Cor an
intimate knowledge Of architecture.
HOW HE WON her HEART
While the plans yer, being drawn for
she new house Mrs. Scarle formed the
acquaintance of her presenthusbald, and
at her request his knowledge Of archltec-
lure WAS brought to bear i'll the con-
vruction of the new house, which was
commenced about two years ago, and
which, it is expected, will be finished
next spring. 1t is said that when COM
pleted the house Mt Great Darlington will
have cost S5.00O,000 From being the
master mind in the construction of the
new house, Mr.. Searle soo,l became the
master Of its owners heart, ard the &C
ouaintance begun in the cosy little
Massachusetts, hamlet ripencd into love,
which has been made sacred and lasting
by the marriage ceremony that took
place in Trinity chapel yesterday morn
ing.
Mrs. Searle has been living at the
Victoria Hotel since her return tc town
from the country, and Mr.. Searle, who
had been down East for some time. did
not return to this city until last Satur
day. Since his arrival he has also been
ut the Victoria. Though the lIOrld has
known of the intended marriage for
some days, the greatest secrecy was
maintained. and many Of Mrs. Searle's
closest friends are still III ignorance of
the event.
The ceremony was exceedingly simple
and devoid of any pomI or show. Ac-
companied by few friends the bride
and groom left the hotel about 1880
O'Clock and went directly to the little
chapel in west Twenty street Af-
ter the ceremony the party repaired to
Delmopico's, where wedding breakfast
was served. Among those present, DO h
at the ceremony and breakfast, were Mr..
and Mrs. Moses Hopkins, of California
ar. and Mrs. +. j.. Faulkner of this
city DIR. and Mrs Plat. and Miss Plat.
In the afternoon the couple left for Bos-
ton. where they will remain few days
before returning here to await the open
ING Of their house III Massachusetts, next
spring.
The few friends of the new Unmarried
couple who were made acquainted yes
terday afternoon with what had taken
place were profuse in their congratull-
lions and kind words. Some of the con-
CALCULATIONS, in the form Of elaborate
floral offerings, were sent to the Victoria
before Mr.. and Mrs. Searle's departure
for Boston. The groom, who Is also
very wealthy, and his bride are both
about forty-tve years of age.
HER EARLY LIFE.
There is much interest woven in ard
about the life of Mrs. Searle. She is one
of the richest women in America. She is
the widow Of Mark Hopkins, who was
one of the five men who built the Cen
trail Pacific railroad. and each made
princely fortune ont of it. The others
were Leland Stanford, G. p. HUNTING
ton. and the two Crockers. Hopkins Was
the treasurer of the company from lis
organization, in 1861 or thereabouts, till
his death, in 1878. He left an estate that
was inventoried at S2l. 1900. Mrs.
Searle got the whole of it, except about
"a. 900. 600, and she is now quite worth
sl5,000,000.
Mrs. Searle was cousin to her first hus-
band, so she belongs to the Hopkins
family by blood as well as by marriage.
She was born in New York city, and her
father was William Sherwood, teacher
and an author of some repute IN his day.
When the present Mrs. Searle was lit
lie girl her father removed to Great Bar
ripgton, where he had previously lived.
He and his wife soon died and left seve-
raj daughters. who maintained select
school in the town for some years. Mark
Hopkins went out 10 California by sea
in 1919, sailing from New York and
doubling Cape Horn. He was then a
single man of thirty-five years.
He had few thousand dol
lars. and went up to Sacramento,
where he founded hardware
store with G. =. Huntington, with whom
he was also afterwards associated IN the
Central Pacific railroad. The little store
in Sacramento was for the sale OF hard
ware-gimlets, nails, hammers, &c.-and
there, while shopping stories and chew
Ing the cud Of wonder as to where the
next months rent was TO come from, the
unambitious tradesman Huntington, now
worth SEQ. 600, 600, then not worth above
his liabilities sixty Old-fashioned cop
pers. and Hopkins, then not worth above
his liabilities as many farthings, had q
hard row TO hoe. Hopkins and wife
were poor people then, and they literally
had bard work to get the ordinary COM
forts of life.
WEALTH CAME AT LAST.
After fighting the battle for some time,
with the success of the Central Pacific
railroad scheme. Hopkins and his asso'
ciates began to make money. AS the
world knows, the road was finally com
pleted, and the five men that we're in
tercsted in it each made princely for.
tame.
Mrs. Searle in appearance is modest
and retiring. and very rarely goes into
society. She is a woman OF refined
tastes, with n fondness for fine arts-a
y quality she is said K have inherited from
y her father She has no society airs, nc
= social frills, no ambitions at all along the
line of personal show, yet she has proba
bly, expended more money on archi.